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React with WordPress API
July 7, 2021 by harendra21
Hello, Today I am going to explore how you can use WordPress API to run a reactjs website. We all know that WordPress is a very popular CMS for blogging, e-commerce, and tons of other features. We can add new features by installing various kinds of plugins. So we are going to use WordPress API to create a reactjs blogging website.
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WordPress is the most popular cms framework for blogging. WordPress provides many features such as
and many others.
Because WordPress provides tons of features, it becomes slow. To speed up and running smoothly we required to react js to convert it into a single page application for frontend users. Some other advantages of using WordPress react given below
WordPress provides API to perform all kinds of actions. Here is the dummy link by which we can access our API – http://yourdomain.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts. We need to change the domain name from the above link and then by hitting it with our web browser we will receive our posts in JSON data format.
There is a quick and customizable solution to convert your existing WordPress website into React Js Website using the Frontity framework for WordPress. This framework is free and open-source to use.
A server-side, dynamic framework for headless WordPress sites and blogs
Frontity cli and entry point to other packages.
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